The commander in chief did make it clear though that he isn’t happy about the way Mueller obtained emails from his transition team as part of his investigation. “Not looking good, it’s not looking good. It’s quite sad to see that. My people were very upset about it,” Trump said. “I can’t imagine there’s anything on them frankly because as we’ve said there’s no collusion, there’s no collusion whatsoever but a lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad.”

Earlier in the day, White House Legislative Director Marc Short told NBC’s Chuck Todd that there had been “no conversation about that whatsoever in the White House” about firing Mueller. When Todd pressed the issue, Short complained the press keeps “bringing that up” even though the administration “has continued to cooperate in every single possible way with that investigation.” Still, Short also criticized Mueller’s investigation, noting that “taxpayers have spent millions and millions of dollars on this investigation and it has not yet proven any sense of collusion with the Russians. I think the American people are ready to turn the page.”

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin also denied there had been any firing talk. “I was at dinner last night with the President and Vice President. I haven’t heard anything about this, any firing,” Mnuchin said on CNN’s State of the Union. He also criticized Mueller’s probe though, characterizing it as “a giant distraction.”

Despite the denials from the White House, Democrats have been expressing concern that Trump is getting ready to fire Mueller. Former Attorney General Eric Holder took to Twitter Sunday to call for “mass, popular, peaceful” protests if Mueller is “removed” or his investigation is “meaningfully tampered with.”

ABSOLUTE RED LINE: the firing of Bob Mueller or crippling the special counsel’s office. If removed or meaningfully tampered with, there must be mass, popular, peaceful support of both. The American people must be seen and heard - they will ultimately be determinative.

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